how many 32-bit packages does sun's java sdk need?

[Steve Forsythe]

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Robert P. J. Day wrote:
|   apparently, for something i'm trying to build, i really do need
| sun's java rather than openjdk, so i grabbed the .bin file from sun
| and executed it only to have it complain about not finding
| libgcc_s.so.  oh, crap ... the executable is 32-bit and i'm running on
| x86_64.
|
|   so install the i686 version, only to have it fail on yet another
| missing shared lib:  libXext.so.6.  yes, i could install the 32-bit
| version of that as well but how much further is this going to go?  is
| there a reason there's no 64-bit version of that SDK?  i *really*
| hate polluting my system with 32-bit packages.
|
| rday
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Perhaps I'm misunderstanding exactly what you're trying to do - there's
definitely 64-bit version of Sun's SDK available. If you go to their
download page at http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/widget/jdk6.jsp
there's a pulldown that lists 9 different platforms including Linux x64.
~  I've been using it for several years now.

HTH.

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